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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can only run Oracle databases if you sign a contract saying you won’t compare it to other systems

lol, now that's a policy that speaks to being confident in their product!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The usual whataboutism people reply with every time I point this is that Microsoft does the same.

What is correct, Microsoft does the same :)

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How would you know ... unless you compared them?

Lawsuits incoming!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Well, the stuff in my post is obvious enough that you don't need to actually look for it.

My first experience with Oracle was taking out all the government services from my state because I passed a DBA a script that inserted too much data in a transaction...